Re: Any recommendations for home recording gear?
Originally Posted by
Mandosummers
I started a similar thread a while back. I have a presonus firestudio project. I have never been happy with the depth or clarity of the presonus on my acoustic recordings of my mandolin and guitar... especially my mando. I had many suggestions of adding pre amps and mics. I added a neuman mic and a Grace M101, and a GAP Pre 73 preamp. These did not help much. I finally broke down and ordered an RME Babyface which arrives friday. If anyone is intrested I'll post and let you know if it makes any difference.
To be perfectly honest, if you were not getting "depth or clarity" with any of the gear mentioned above, I would be surprised if the equipment was primarily responsible, unless there is a fault with the A/D converters in the Firestudio. You should be able to get extremely clean, well-defined recordings with that. The GAP Pre 73 is pretty colored, while the Grace is very clean.... but both sound very nice indeed in their own way, and coupled with a Neumann, you should be good to go! Differences between converters as such (once you get in to the medium-higher price ranges) are very, very subtle. Less to do with clarity as such, more 'spatial focus' ....it is rarely night and day. You need a seriously good monitoring setup and accurate environment to hear it. What is your recording acoustic environment like? Monitoring environment? Room treatments?
Regardless, I am sure you will enjoy the Baybyface. I have not used one myself, but have used other RME stuff and it is up there with the best.
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